RADICAL MEMBERS OF THE SO. CA. LEGISLATURE
- [Columbia, SC? , 1868
[Columbia, SC?, 1868. Carte-de-visite, mounted on card stock, 2.5" x 4". Composite photographs of white and black members of South Carolina's Reconstruction legislature. Verso identifies each legislator. Very Good plus. "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by J.C. Gibbes, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of South Carolina."
Reconstruction gave South Carolina freedmen the vote. Carolina's blacks far outnumbered the whites; their votes established a new State Constitution in 1868, which called for elections that year. Readmitted to the Union on June 25, 1868, South Carolina was the only State Legislature with a black majority in its lower house. This image was "[c]reated to frighten the white population" [Princeton's online discussion of the print].
At the center of the picture are Lieut. Gov. Boozer and Franklin J. Moses, Jr., Adjutant and Inspector General, both white, surrounded by mostly black men. Around Boozer's head are the words: "President Lieut. Gov. Boozer, 40 Acres and a Mule..." Around Moses' head appears: "Judas Moses who raised the Confederate Flag at Fort Sumter."
The faces surrounding Boozer and Moses include African-American men such as Joseph Rainey, born into slavery and the first African-American to serve in the United States House of Representatives; Jonathan J. Wright, South Carolina's first African-American attorney and later Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; Henry E. Hayne, the first African-American student at the University of South Carolina and later Secretary of the State; and numerous delegates to the 1868 South Carolina convention.
On the verso are printed the surnames and location of each of the sixty-two members shown, including: Barton, Boozer, Boston, Bozeman, Brodie, Cain, Carmand, Chesnut, Cook, Demars, Dickson, Duncan, Dusenberry, Farr, Gardner, Harris, Hayes, Hayne, Henderson, Howell, Hoyt, Hudson, Hyde, Jackson, James, Jillson, Johnston, Lee, Lomax, Martin, Maxwell, Mayes, McDaniel, McKinlay, Meade, Mickery, Miller, Miteford, Mobley, Moses, Nash, Nuckles, Perrin, Pettengill, Rainey, Randolph, Rivers, Sanders, Shrewsbury, Simonds, Smith, Smythe, Swails, Thomas, Thompson, Tomlinson, Webb, White, Wilder, Williams, Wimbush, and Wright.
OCLC 228111724 [1 - U So. C], 892893711 [1- Yale] as of December 2024.
Reconstruction gave South Carolina freedmen the vote. Carolina's blacks far outnumbered the whites; their votes established a new State Constitution in 1868, which called for elections that year. Readmitted to the Union on June 25, 1868, South Carolina was the only State Legislature with a black majority in its lower house. This image was "[c]reated to frighten the white population" [Princeton's online discussion of the print].
At the center of the picture are Lieut. Gov. Boozer and Franklin J. Moses, Jr., Adjutant and Inspector General, both white, surrounded by mostly black men. Around Boozer's head are the words: "President Lieut. Gov. Boozer, 40 Acres and a Mule..." Around Moses' head appears: "Judas Moses who raised the Confederate Flag at Fort Sumter."
The faces surrounding Boozer and Moses include African-American men such as Joseph Rainey, born into slavery and the first African-American to serve in the United States House of Representatives; Jonathan J. Wright, South Carolina's first African-American attorney and later Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court; Henry E. Hayne, the first African-American student at the University of South Carolina and later Secretary of the State; and numerous delegates to the 1868 South Carolina convention.
On the verso are printed the surnames and location of each of the sixty-two members shown, including: Barton, Boozer, Boston, Bozeman, Brodie, Cain, Carmand, Chesnut, Cook, Demars, Dickson, Duncan, Dusenberry, Farr, Gardner, Harris, Hayes, Hayne, Henderson, Howell, Hoyt, Hudson, Hyde, Jackson, James, Jillson, Johnston, Lee, Lomax, Martin, Maxwell, Mayes, McDaniel, McKinlay, Meade, Mickery, Miller, Miteford, Mobley, Moses, Nash, Nuckles, Perrin, Pettengill, Rainey, Randolph, Rivers, Sanders, Shrewsbury, Simonds, Smith, Smythe, Swails, Thomas, Thompson, Tomlinson, Webb, White, Wilder, Williams, Wimbush, and Wright.
OCLC 228111724 [1 - U So. C], 892893711 [1- Yale] as of December 2024.
Details
Title
RADICAL MEMBERS OF THE SO. CA. LEGISLATURE
Author
[Reconstruction in South Carolina]
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
[Columbia, SC?
Date
1868